The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

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The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London
Author
Gerard, John, 1545-1612.
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London :: Printed by Adam Islip Ioice Norton and Richard Whitakers,
anno 1633.
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Botany -- Pre-Linnean works -- Early works to 1800.
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Gardens -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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¶ The Description.

THe leaues of our Ladies Thistle are as bigge as those of white Cotton. Thistle: for the leaues thereof be great, broad, large, gashed in the edges, armed with a multitude of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and sharpe prickles, as are those of Ote-Thistle, but they are without down, altogether slippery, of a light

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[illustration]
Carduus Marioe. Ladies Thistle.
green and speckled, with white and milky 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and lines drawne diuers waies: the stalk is high, and as big as a mans finger: the floures grow forth of heads full of prickles, being threds of a purple colour: the seed is wrapped in downe like that of Cotton Thistle: the root is long, thicke, and white.

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